just wasting time.....

stfuconservatives:

eddyizm:

Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez was 17 years old. She was engaged and pregnant. Now she’s dead, and the people responsible are about to walk away without a minute of jail time. Maria Isabel was a farmworker employed by Merced Farm Labor –– a company that was fined in 2006 for not having a written heat-stress prevention plan to protect its workers. They never did write that plan. On May 14th, 2010, Maria Isabel worked in a vineyard for nine hours straight. She was denied shade. She was denied water. She was denied rest. And when she finally collapsed in her fiance’s arms and was rushed to the hospital, her co-workers were instructed to lie to the doctors, to say that she had fainted while exercising. Maria Isabel died later that night. Her fever was 108 degrees. Now the San Joaquin District Attorney wants to let the people responsible for Maria Isabel’s death go with nothing more than community service. Click here to stand against this injustice. Merced Farm Labor is owned by Maria De Los Angeles Colunga, and its safety coordinator is Elias Armenta. Both Colunga and Armenta have been charged with involuntary manslaughter, but now San Joaquin District Attorney James Willett has offered them a plea deal where Colunga will most likely face 40 hours community service and a small fine and Armenta 400 hours. “Everyone needs to move along with their lives. My clients are very, very nice people and very remorseful,” said Merced’s attorney. But Colunga and Armenta didn’t display remorse for Maria Isabel’s death. In fact, the California Department of Labor had to shut the company down in July of 2010, because they still refused to provide their workers with the shade and water breaks required by California law, even after those same practices killed Maria Isabel. Maria Isabel’s family wants justice for her death, and they are working with the United Farmworkers Union to try to get it. We can help, but the sentencing hearing for Colunga and Armenta is scheduled for March 9th – and time is running out.

 This happened HERE, in America. A young pregnant woman died because she was denied water, shade or rest while working outdoors. Just despicable.

drinkthe-koolaid:

kateoplis:

From inside the Wisconsin State Capitol, RAN ally Ryan Harvey:

“Hundreds of cops have just marched into the Wisconsin state capitol building to protest the anti-Union bill, to massive applause. They now join up to 600 people who are inside.”

From his Facebook page earlier today:

“Police have just announced to the crowds inside the occupied State Capitol of Wisconsin: ‘We have been ordered by the legislature to kick you all out at 4:00 today. But we know what’s right from wrong. We will not be kicking anyone out, in fact, we will be sleeping here with you!’ Unreal.”

Video

They threatened this yesterday. Glad to see they followed through. Solidarity!

See, cops can be good guys too :)

stfuconservatives:

I can hardly fucking believe the sliminess of this:

Democrats launched a filibuster, throwing out dozens of amendments and delivering rambling speeches. Each time Republicans tried to speed up the proceedings, Democrats rose from their seats and wailed that the GOP was stifling them.

Debate had gone on for 60 hours and 15 Democrats were still waiting to speak when the vote started around 1 a.m. Friday. Speaker Pro Tem Bill Kramer, R-Waukesha, opened the roll and closed it within seconds.

Democrats looked around, bewildered. Only 13 of the 38 Democratic members managed to vote in time.

This shit goes beyond party lines, this goes beyond pro-union anti-union, this is not democracy. How dare they open and close the rolls before Democrats even have a chance to vote.

“Hey do you want to strip unions of their right to collectively bargain?”

“Well actually n-.”

“Too late! The vote is closed.”

I’m shaking with fury right now…

-Joe

So am I. Fucking Republicans. Fucking Tea Party. You accuse me of being the “unpatriotic” American. Fuck you. You have gone against everything this country is supposed to be about. You don’t believe in the principles of this country. You don’t deserve to shroud yourselves in the American Flag. You don’t deserve to call yourselves anything other than soulless, greedy, and uncaring bastards.

Not to mention you did nothing in all of this but prove how underhanded and evil you are. While I refuse to judge all “Republicans” by your actions, I judge you, the Republican members of the Wisconsin State Assembly, as cowardly degenerates who don’t have the gumption to stand up for your beliefs in honest and straight-forward ways, and all I can do is promise to join with the rest of those fighting you and your power grab.

If, as you like to believe, you are the natural philosophical descendants of our Founding Fathers though, maybe I no longer want to be an American. Because your idea of what makes a country great only makes you and your buddies great; you have proven greed is great, and humanity means nothing, let alone your fellow country men.

Sad thing is, this doesn’t surprise me. In the least.